We often forget them. Instead of eyes or mouths, I have taken a thousand photos of the hands of people I met in Equatorial Guinea with one excuse: the action they are performing. It is undoubtedly less intrusive, yet as intimate as a glance or a twitch of the lips.

Valeria, from Argentina, and Lasmy, from Colombia, are s*x workers in the Bois de Boulogne park in Paris, France. Both have agreed to let the Brut team—Camille Reporter and Elena Bueriberi—accompany them in their daily lives.